(CNN) — Authorities in Mobile, Alabama, are investigating why a University of South Alabama police officer shot and killed an 18-year-old freshman who they say was naked and acting erratically outside the campus police station early Saturday. The campus officer heard a loud banging noise on a window at the station at 1:23 a.m. CT Saturday, the university said in a statement. When he left the station to investigate, the school said, “he was confronted by a muscular, nude man who was acting erratically.” The man, later identified as Gilbert Thomas Collar, of Wetumpka, Alabama, repeatedly rushed and verbally challenged the officer in a fighting stance, the school said. The officer, whose name hasn’t been released, drew his weapon and ordered Collar to stop, the school said. The officer retreated several times to try to calm the situation. “When the individual continued to rush toward the officer in a threatening manner and ignored the officer’s repeated commands to stop, the officer fired one shot with his police sidearm, which struck the chest of the assailant,” the school statement said. “The individual fell to the ground, but he got up once more and continued to challenge the officer further before collapsing and expiring.”

Well this is what happens when you give a Rent A Cop a fake badge and a real gun I guess. He starts shooting every freshman on a naked run around campus. Hey who can blame him, it’s got to get boring spending your entire life trying to catch 20 year olds drinking and writing them tickets and trying to get them on social probation. A lot more exciting to just kill people. Why try to use your special campus police training skills to tackle or take down an unarmed butt naked 18 year old kid when you can blow a hole in his chest?

Oh yeah cause you know, wrestling a guy whos clearly on drugs is a great idea. Have you ever heard of tweaker strength? People on drugs are extremely strong. Doesnt matter how much you outweigh the person or what kind of training you have. @Bostonsbetter- Shut the fuck up. You dont know what you're talking about. In case you didnt know, not every police officer carries a taser. In a lot of states only sergeants or above are allowed to carry them. Not that it would necessarily matter because when people are hopped up on certain drugs tasers dont have an effect. @Haleyingonmyface, you also dont know what you are talking about. Shooting for a limb is not only harder to do than people think, its also against protocol and police training. The bullet could ricochet of the ground and hit a bystander. Officers are trained to shoot for center mass to disable the threat and make sure bullets dont hit civilians.

@kirk Nowhere, that wasn't my point. My point was cops can't just go shooting people every time they feel threatened. The job comes with risks and as long as nobody is threatening you with a weapon, you have to deal with the small % chance that something bad could still happen to you.

@Kirk you know they have other officers right? Guy was at a police station maybe just go back inside and get a few of your buddies? Granted its embarrassing that you had to go back inside and ask for help in subduing a drunk, naked 18 year old...but probably better than the impending lawsuit and death of a kid